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28
May

THE GREAT CHALLENGE: HOW FOOD CAN ATTRACT PEACE AND SOLIDARITY: RESTAURANT GINGER PEOPLE AND FOOD IN AGRIGENTO

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Great challenges often start fighting against all odds: and in many cases, solidarity and union can help facing them. Few days ago, I was in Agrigento with Aregai Association (Italian no-profit Association involved in disseminating a new concept of sustainability, based on an innovative assessing model called LICET) to celebrate the winners of the #BezzoPrize, […]

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14
Apr

LABORATORIO MONFERRATO, CHAPTER 3: THE GENESIS OF A ‘MONFERRATO BREAKFAST’

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If you were us, would you make a brand of it? Laboratorio Monferrato has gathered a 3rd time, in ‘Cascina LA Rossa – Morsasco’ in a ‘agrituturismo’ at the feet of the Apennines a bunch of km north of  the Ligurian Sea, to boost  the Monferrato breakfast project. This is meant to be a new […]

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16
Feb

Italy makes the difference in New York restaurants

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New York as the Big Apple, a Melting Pot… so many interpretations for one of the biggest cities in the world. A place of strong immigration, during centuries, from all Continents. Italians played a role as immigrants early XIX century: you can reckon their huge number by the restaurants, trattorias, cafés opened at almost every […]

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09
Sep

WOMEN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET. BEYOND EMPOWERMENT

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When talking of ‘Diet’, food comes to mind. Nevertheless, the Mediterranean Diet is much more than just food . It identifies a culture, a system of values which nestles in families. Here women are true spokesmen of the Mediterranean Diet. UNESCO reads: ‘The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions […]

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25
Aug

THE SENSE OF PLACE : a Mediterranean interpretation

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     THE SENSE OF PLACE ‘Tourism can only compound the degradation of hospitality, because a part of the Mediterranean and African population has given up offering traditional hospitality, in order to spoil unaware tourists, who do not know the value of thing or of currency. Not only we are living an economic crisis (…) All […]

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